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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » Plant-parasitic Hemipterans (Sternorrhyncha) » Aphidoidea » Aphids (Aphididae) » Giant Aphids (Lachninae) » Eulachnini » Giant Conifer Aphids (Cinara) » Subgenus Cinara (Cinara Subgenus Cinara) » Spruce Shoot Giant-aphid (Cinara pilicornis)

Species Cinara pilicornis - Spruce Shoot Giant-aphid

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Cinara pilicornis Cinara pilicornis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Sternorrhyncha (Plant-parasitic Hemipterans)
Superfamily Aphidoidea
Family Aphididae (Aphids)
Subfamily Lachninae (Giant Aphids)
Tribe Eulachnini
Genus Cinara (Giant Conifer Aphids)
No Taxon (Subgenus Cinara)
Species pilicornis (Spruce Shoot Giant-aphid)

Explanation of Names

Author: Hartig

Size

BL 2.1-4.7 mm.

Identification

Apterae are either orange-brown or greyish-green

Food

Picea spp, also Tsuga heterophylla

Remarks

Introduced from the Palearctic, 1912

Internet References

Aphids on world plants

Cinara pilicornis - Spruce shoot aphid
Contributed by Claude Pilon on 10 January, 2011 - 12:57pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Joshua Stuart Rose
Last updated 17 November, 2020 - 9:47am

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